All of those successes are true. But historical data from Gallup show that Occupy and its antecedents didn’t really move the needle much in terms of popular opinion in America.

The 63% of Americans who say that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of people is not all that different from the 60% of people who said that back in 1984, according to Gallup.

And when it comes to whether Americans are more concerned about closing the gap between the rich and the poor or about moving up the economic ladder themselves, the latter still triumphs. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll found:

“By a greater than 2-to-1 margin, however, Americans said they’re less worried about the income gap, per se, and more worried about how middle- or working-class Americans can get ahead financially.

In other words, although the Occupy protestors have moved on, things unfortunately haven’t changed much at all.